Greetings!
The June 2009 Newsletter is now available online at:
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
In June's newsletter, we feature: articles, an essay, and abstract by Douglas
V. Armstrong, Anna Hill, Jerome S. Handler, Mary Ann Fanning, Christian
Williamson, Alan Armstrong, Titilayo O. Olukole, Peggy Brunache, and Neil L.
Norman; news reports and announcements; a compiled list of graduate
programs in African diaspora archaeology; and book reviews by Andrew Agha,
Aaron Brummitt, Simon Lewis, Charles Orser, and Nana Yaw B. Sapong. A table
of contents is set out below.
Please contact me if you have essays, analysis papers, book reviews, project
reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to contribute to the
African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter. This Newsletter is
published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.
Cheers,
Chris
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June 2009 Newsletter
** Articles, Essays, and Reports **
Uncovering Inspiration: Current Archaeology Investigations of Harriet Tubman
in Central New York, by Douglas V. Armstrong and Anna Hill
Gizzard Stones, Wari in the New World, and Slave Ships: Some Research
Questions, by Jerome S. Handler
Comparative Ceramic Study Between Enslaved and Planter Contexts in
Martinique, by Mary Ann Fanning
The Magens House: Archaeology of a Complex Urban House Compound in the
Port Town of Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, by Douglas V. Armstrong, Christian
Williamson, and Alan Armstrong
Changing Cultural Landscapes and Heritage Tourism Potentials of Ijaiye-Orile
Archaeological Sites in Nigeria, by Titilayo O. Olukole
Teaching American History and African Diaspora Heritage in Scotland, by
Peggy Brunache
Dissertation Abstract -- An Archaeology of West African Atlanticization:
Regional Analysis of the Huedan Palace Districts and Countryside (Bénin),
1650-1727, by Neil L. Norman
** News and Announcements **
Graduate Programs in African Diaspora Archaeology, by Christopher Fennell
African American Archaeology on Display at Cheyney University of
Pennsylvania, by Patrice L. Jeppson
Archaeology of the Bruin Slave Jail in Alexandria, Virginia, by Lisa Kraus, John
Bedell and Charles LeeDecker
United States Senate Approves Resolution Apologizing for Slavery, by Jeremy
Pelofsky
In Memoriam: Philip D. Curtin, 1922–2009, by Pillarisetti Sudhir
Africa's Genetic Secrets Unlocked, by Victoria Gill
NOAA and the National Association of Black Scuba Divers Explore Shared
History, by NOAA News
Tracing the Threads that Join America and Africa, by Nicolai Ouroussoff
New Books and Exhibits: Africa and Archaeology: Empowering an Expatriate
Life; Movements, Borders, and Identities in Africa; Imperial Subjects: Race and
Identity in Colonial Latin America; Jim Crow America: A Documentary History;
The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture; Black Pioneers: Images of
the Black Experience on the North American Frontier; South Carolina Women:
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1; The Origins of Proslavery Christianity: White
and Black Evangelicals in Colonial and Antebellum Virginia; Audacious Freedom:
African Americans in Philadelphia, 1776–1876 (Exhibit); Persona -- Masks of
Africa: Identities Hidden and Revealed (Exhibit)
** Conferences and Calls for Papers **
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Biennial
Conference
Twelfth Biennial Colloquium of the West African Archaeological Association
Negotiating the Sacred: Politics, Practice, and Perceptions of Religion in Africa
Gender, Class, Race, and Ethnicity in Abolitionism, on the Underground Railroad
and in the Struggle Since
Women in the Ibero-American Atlantic (1500-1800)
Encyclopedia of the Material Culture of American Slave Life
Other Views: Art History in South Africa and the Global South
** Book Reviews **
Review of "'Deep Roots:' Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African
Diaspora," by Andrew Agha
Review of "The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking," by Aaron Brummitt
Review of "Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American
Slavery, 1770-1860," by Simon Lewis
Review of "The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in
Annapolis," by Charles Orser
Review of "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Story of the 'Clotilda' and the
Last Enslaved Africans Brought to America," by Nana Yaw B. Sapong
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Christopher C. Fennell
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois
109 Davenport Hall, MC-148
607 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
www.anthro.illinois.edu/faculty/cfennell
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